Blazing heritage : a history of wildland fire in the national parks / Hal K. Rothman.
Blazing heritage : a history of wildland fire in the national parks / Hal K. Rothman.
Blazing heritage : a history of wildland fire in the national parks / Hal K. Rothman.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2007.
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N363.37909/4
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English
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viii, 281 p.
Contents
Introduction : the national parks and fire -- 1. Fighting fire on horseback : the military in the national parks, 1872-1916 -- 2. The development of a fire management structure -- 3. A decade of transformation : the New Deal and fire policy -- 4. Ecology and the limits of suppression in the postwar...
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Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2007.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2007.
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Summary
"Our national parks, America's iconic landscapes, were always the prime laboratory for experimentation with fire. In telling the story of wildfire and the parks, Rothman highlights the intersection of scientific research and popular sentiment in American society, and illustrates the centrality of the Park Service's evolving policies to public debat...
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Blazing heritage : a history of wildland fire in the national parks / Hal K. Rothman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N363.37909/4
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74VK7lDNPm8b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7lDNPm8b
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ISBN
0195311167 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780195311167 (cloth : alk. paper)
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363.3790973
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991022981949702626
